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ENV RESPONDS TO GULICK AVENUE SSO   (Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010) – The City's Department of Environmental Services responded this evening to a sanitary sewer overflow in Kalihi. The call came in at 7:46 p.m.  An ENV crew arrived at 8:04 p.m. with the site secured at 8:17 p.m. Grease clogged a 10-inch terra cotta pipe at 1240 Gulick Avenue causing an estimated 1,550 gallons of untreated wastewater out a manhole and into Kalihi Stream. ENV notified the state Department of Health.  Signing and water sampling will begin Monday morning.                                                                                                                                                            -30-       Contact:  Markus Owens, ENV Public Communications Officer, 768-3454